BRIEF MENTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2, 3 January 1900, Page 2

BRIEF MENTION.

■ ■» Extrshi> m summer temperature — yeater day and to-day. Southerly weather m Wellington, Bain at Greymouib this morning. The pttriotio meeting at Ewart's Hall to-night, and «ar Don't you, forget it ! We Bing " Bule Britannia." We lose no opportunity of proclaiming onr devotion to the Motherland. Let all show it to-night m a more tangible way. The orioket matoh Wellington v. Otago was won by the former by an innings and 256 runp. The last portion of the British siege train baa left Capetown for the front. The Bey. Mr Greenough, ex-obairman of the Baptist Union, baa entered an emphatio protest against the attitude of the " peace at any price" party, with speoial reference to the efforts and writings of Mr W. T, Stead and the Bey. Silan Hooking, the well-known Free Ohuroh Methodist minister. When the Boera form a firing line nobody is left to look after the horses, wbioh are trained to remain m statu qu& as soon as they feel the reins dropped over their neoks* M. Paul de Caesagnao writes m L'Autorite :— " There are no English soldiere, the so-called English eoldierß are simply mer* oenaries, every one of whom, if taken prisoners by the Boers, ought to be banged as a revenge for the Boers killed by lyddite ehellß." H. Erisobler, an Australian, who won a Queen's medal on board^the trainingsbip Britannia, has been appointed a midshipman on H.M.S. Doris—one of the Cape squadron— in succession" to Midshipman Huddart (a son of James Huddart, of Sydney), killed at the battle of Graajman," Applioant : lam just out of college, sir, and would like a position as reporter. Managing editor : Nonsense. I'll give you a job aa editorial writer and let you work your way up. The oraft of the merohant is the bringing a thing from where it abounds to where it is costly. He who thinks too muoh of himself will be m danger of being forgotten by the rest of the world. Health, beauty, vigor, riebee, and all other things, though good, operate equally 8B evils to the vicious as they do as benefitr to the just, The London Daily Telegraph and Sootsman Shilling Fund for the widows and orphans of our soldiers killed m the Transvaal war now exceeds £23,000 and is aoonmnlating at the rate of from £2000 to £3000 daily. The man who invented barbed wire oould hardly have anticipated that it would beoome a very important item m modern warfare. God made the oountry, but the patent medioine man is sure it wasn't labelled properly. Bedroom windows should never be entirely closed if the person oooupying the room is strong. " Dear Tim, I'm sending you my old ooat by paroel post, so I've cut the buttons off to make it lighter, but you'll find them m the fcside pooket— Tours truly, Fat." The pawnbroker's life may be a very loanly one, but it has some redeeming features. Unique Ethel (exoitedly) : " Ob, papa hurry, quiok ! Mr S ppy ia lying on the parlor sofa m great pain. He has swallowed his monoole 1" Papa (coolly) « " Well, can't it be duplicated ?" lfiihel : " Oh, yea but Mr Sappy oan't," The idea started by Miss Oabot of making " n ghtingal. s," or fl.nnel bedgowns, for the use of the wounded soldiers m Bouth Afrioa, has been taken up with great enthusiasm, not only m Obristoburoh, but also m the neighbouring districts of Bouthbridae Little Rivor, Obertsey, Prebbleton, Kaianoi 1 and Marshlands. •«»pw i